You’ve got to understand that you can’t rewrite history,’ McCain said in an interview published Monday.

‘One of the almost irresistible impulses you have when you lose is to somehow justify why you lost and how you were mistreated: “I did the right thing! I did!” The hardest thing to do is to just shut up.’

McCain had the Senate to fall back on when his presidential aspirations went belly-up.

Hillary had only a series of sympathetic TV interviews and her book tour.